mechanics

QuickFire was a failure, but not for the reasons a lot of people think. What happened wasn't out of malice, nor was anyone trying to force anything despite what many say. I feel like Quickfire failed due to the following reasons: The QF Team - Game development studios have people test their...

Hello people, i figured i post this thread here for some long time discussion, as discord swallows a lot of answers and i do want as much input/feedback as possible. I present to you WarpSpace. WarpSpace replaces the vanilla FTL mechanic ("admin teleport") with a minecraft nether like space...

So just a thought Does anyone here like the needlessly complicated and tedious factory system in place at the moment? Probably not. There are simply too many raw resources and resource refining is a really big headache. I daresay the current state of the resource mechanics is why Starmade has...

It would make a nice new point defense system competitive for anti drone so you dont have to use lasers or cannons, and it would be a cool system to watch. they would have to do less damage and have a higher radius though

Hello there people who play Starmade or just browse the forums. I, as a long time lurker, have a question to ask. I'm sorry if this is obvious to everyone, has been discussed to death, is far too long, or I'm just being stupid, I make a habit of it at times. So, my question, and TL:DR: What...

Hey guys, I was hoping we could crowd-source a nice overview of what Star Made is and how it plays, as well as a good, brief description of each of it's core mechanics and features. I've been playing for a few years, and am trying to convince a friend to join who I used to play a lot of...

So the key of this idea is a visibility score and the removal of nav-diamonds as a default feature on all entities. To start with every ship has a visibility score, the default for this is 0, this score can be raised by a number of things: For every X mass (e.g. 100) a ships visibility...

A new mechanic: Heat. Heat is intended to replace/introduce a new way to handle efficiency loss of large and multiple systems. Heat Generation: Like Reactors, Systems and Weapons generate Heat. Rapid Fire weapons produce large amounts of heat, while alpha weapons are much more heat efficient...

sorry for the missing space in the title Tldr : have the power system divided in 3 parts : batteries that store power, generators that create power, distributor that determine power output by second. generator and distributor produce produce heat so there is a cooling system to compensate. Npc...

Currently a defensive system's effect is based off of it's percent of mass to the total mass of the entity it's on. Because most systems are based off of mass, the result is allot of docked modular components which make more efficient use of power and space such as docked shields, armor/hull...

Problem is that influence of any effect depends on mass only. When you have shields and ION defencive effect at max level and build armor, you have to add ION effect modules. But amount of ION modules should not depend on amount of non-shield armor. [A suggestion] I think that influence of...

I started this out as a reply to Sven's thread, but realised that it encompassed beyond what he originally intended to talk about, so I make a new thread. Right now, fixing something without shipyards are super time-consuming and annoying. Say, you made an entity, a pirate wrecks it to 80%...

building a large ship with docked parts is risky if your trusting a single 1 block to hold your engines together what i suggest is a linked docking unit multiple Rail dockers OR new docking unit type link as 1, connect to multiple rails so if 1 is damaged your parts don't fall off OR a "TEST...

Display module linking to cameras and also each other. more display module options and types. Display module linking to cameras for view screens. Naming cameras Display Slabs for TV style setups (also might be fun) Display Wedge. More Orientation (24) (like rails). for non traditional ship...

There are quite a few rail types missing from the game that should be added so that the best of the rail builders (and the worst) can experiment and create creations that are not possible currently. The intangible clockwise rotator The intangible anticlockwise rotator The visible shoot out...

Who here likes the Idea of jumping into a boarding vessel, breaking and entering into your enemy's vessel and destroying it from the inside out, or just flat out taking it over? Because I do. But there is one flaw that prevents me, and many others I know from doing such procedures, the fact that...

╔═════════════════════╣ POST INDEX ╠═════════════════════╗ PLAYER DATA DISPLAY DISPLAY MODULE 1.0 - 3x5 display with UP counter DISPLAY MODULE 2.0 - 3x5 display UP / DOWN counter DISPLAY MODULE 3.0 - 3x5 display alphanumeric 0-9, A - Z Letters and numbers for display modules Part. 1 Letters...

Everybody knows what I'm talking about. The current algorithm for power reactors is to favor long lines of interconnecting "+" shaped reactors. Once you get used to it and learn how to make some decently effective reactor runs, it's not so bad. Some even appreciate the current reactor system...

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HI, I know this idea is planned in the futur but, I was wondering how cool it would be to be able to do a barrel roll or a loop with your ship by (for instance) double tapping W/A/S/D key on your keyboard or the left/right/Up/Down arrow keys. PvP and even PvE would be enhanced since missiles...